Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-26
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| STONE, DIX, VINO Lnree years aSo IesoiNou
| never TO marry, eleven are now married and
| two are soon to be.
SOME boys who were duck hunting near
Yuba City, CAL, discovered coon's nest In
! hollow tree. They set fire to the tree and a
| procession OF ooons appeared at the opening,
| few feet from the ground, until eleven OF
| these terr1rs Of the henroOst wereshot. There
| was one left 10 the tree, being so q oee 10 the
| ire and smoke that il was suhocated ana
| burned. making twelve coons in one tree.
| A CoUNTRYMAN at a prominent Eur, nean
hotel blew ont the gas, but not before he had
noticed a little green tag suspended from the
| burner. He prepared for slumber but his
! curiosity got the better OF him and lie lit the
| gas to read the inscription. IL was: do not
| blow out the gas or il Will cause immediate
death" There was an extra clause IN the
| countryman's prayer blessing the creation OF
| curiosity.
! A CORRESPONDENT OF one of the technical
Journals has been making some experiments
| in gastronomy, which certainly do credit to
hls power OF overcoming natural prejudices.
! He caught, by the aid of his terrier, two
| plump barn rats, and after preparation pre-
| sented them to his cook to be made into a pie.
| The pie was, he states, delicious, and was
voted luxury by some friends who partook
| OF IL unWittingly.
| MEETING to commemorate the Queens
! jubilee was held last week by some ladies in
the Provost's house, Trinity College, Dublin.
| the Duchess of Marlborough being present.
| 1t was agreed that each lady should subscribe
| the sum of one shilling to commemorate the
| Queens devotion to Ireland during fifty
years. The twelve pennies in the selected
| com most suitably represent the twelve days
| devotedly given up to Ireland out of these
| fifty years.
FORTY NINE YEARS AGO the father Of Har-
rson Gilbert, of Chill, ILL.,, bought two
| year-old pony from the Indians. When the
war between the States began the pony was
| twenty five years old, but Mr.. Gilbert rode
| him all through the war, and neither was
| hurt. The old fellow atil lives, tenderly
cared for. He hasn't a tooth in his head,
lives on corn bread and bran mash and is
probably the Oldest horse in America, if not
in the world
WHEN DR.. Franklin applied to the King of
Prussia to lend his assistance to America,
'Pray, DOCTOR" said the veteran. what is
the object you mean to attain?" Liberty,
SIRE" replied the philosopher of Phiadel-
phia, Liberty! that freedom which is tie
birthright of man." The King, after shert
pause, made this memorable and kIngly an
swer; Il was born a Prince, am become a
King, and will not use the power which
possess to the ruin of my own trade"
DIR. CAMPBELL BROWN. the public analyst
of Liverpool, recently gave evidence in some
cases Of pepper adulteration. In one case the
| pepper which he had examined contained up
wards of Is per cent. of rice and per cent of
hard ligneOus tissue resembling ground
| olive stones. He explained that this worth
| less substance was imported into England
| under the name OF poivrette, or perperette.
| Tor the purpose OF increasing the weight and
| bulk of pepper. He had much difficulty in
! ascer tanning the exact nature of this com
| pound, which is advertised in circulars sent
| from Italy to English pepper merchants. 1t
| seems to consist of some kind of ground fruit
| stones or nut-shels, but ground olive stones
| seem to produce a substance most like it. The
| price of this rubbish is one penny pound, or
| less than one-twefth the price of pepper.
LOUIS RTvARD came into notoriety as a
young lawyer in Norwich, Conn, a few years
ago. by bringing suits against railroads cen
trlng there for neglecting to provide proper
| toilet accommodations for passengers at the
depots. The statute fined companies 800 for
each omission, one-half the penalty going TO
the complainant. RiVard brought lis of the
| suits, and consequently expected TO make
| $3.50 on the enterprise. However, for some
| reason the suits were not prosecuted, and
| subsequently Rivard, after vainly endeavor-
| ing TO establish himself in practice in Meri-
| den, resolved to establish himself in New
| fork-about the worst place In the world for
| briehess lawyer. There he lived until he
came to want, and then he eked out exist
| enoe by pedding and by the exercise of his
| wits, until finally ne sickened and was taken
| to the hospital. He died as Paul Revere.
THE late A. W. Moore, one of the ablest of
| England's permanent civil service, was
notable mountain climber. He once went
from Courmayeur over the top of Mont Blanc
| to Chamounix in single day one of the most
remarkable feats on record. 1t was he, also,
who made the first ascent of Mount Eburz.
| in the Caucasus, the loftiest peak in Europe.
| In 1871 ne became honorary secretary of the
| Alpine Club, and was one of the most effec-
| tive and certainly one of the most amusing
| speakers who took part in Its proceedings. He
| was gifted with an extraordinarily accurate
memory, and with a large fund of ready
| humOr. One of his friends of the Alpine
| Club, who had named each of three or four
| children after particular Swiss peaks, once
| applied to MIN to suggest suitable names, on
the same lines, for twins that had recently
arrived. QHick as thought came the answer:
| "Of course you must call the boy Monty and
| the girl Rosa"
AN ingenious writer treats of gravitation
! of the moon IN the Popular Science News. II
| it were possible, he says. to take O journey to
the moon we should find a very different state
Of affairs existing. The moon having much
smaller mass than the earth Will exert its at
tractive influence less strongly; and by the
eXertion of the same strength a man could
leap into the air to an astonishing distance,
jumping over the tallest buildings with the
same ease that ne would clear a low obstruc-
ton on the earth. Tue same effect would be
produced upon all other bodies. Horse
would travel at greatly increased speed, and
If the rider was thrown the consequences
Ol Dlb ldll WDulQ DC lnuCn less serlOuBs the
elephant would become as light footed as a
deer; stone thrown from the hand of q care
lees boy might fall in an adjoining town be
fore accOmpli~ hing its mssion Of destruction:
armies would engage in battles at great dis
tances from each other. and nearly every
kind of labor would be lightened. from the
diminished weight of tools and materials.
MANGUs COLORADO was killed through the
agency of Gen. G. II. West. 90 years ago at
Apache TAHOE, now in Grant county, n. M, 10
miles south of where Silver City now stands.
The circumstances attending Colorado's
death were the result of an unpleasantness on
the part of the Indians, arising from the
treachery OF Lieut.. Bascom and others toward
Cochise, and under the pretense OF a desire 10
heal the breach, Gen. West sent a messenger
to Mangus. then at Pinos Altos, with the re-
quest that he was desi GUS of consummatIna
a treaty of peace. In obedience to the sume
mons the old chief appeared when he was at
once confronted and cursed by West and or
dered to be placed in the guardhouse and the
guard was instructed that IL he stirred during
the night to kill him. Tue old chief being in
formed of the purport of the order was ex-
tremey quiet until n hot iron was thrust
through small opening in the guardhouse
against his hip, which caused him to jump to
his feet thus affOrdng the pretext for giving
effect to the order. lie was instantly killed
and TO add to the barbarian Of the deed his
head was severed from his body and thrown
into the sink of water closet. 1t was after
ward recovered, and the skull reported sent
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